Release Date
July 23, 2010 (Limited)
DVD Release Date
April 12, 2011 (Buy on Amazon)
Director
Christian Carion
Writer
Christian Carion
Cast
Emir Kusturica, Guillaume Canet, Ingeborga Dapknaite, David Soul, Dina Korzun, Phillipe Magnan, Yevgeni Kharlanov, Willem Dafoe, Fred Ward
Studio
Running Time
130 minutes
MPA Rating
Not Rated
Engaging, emotional and riveting, "Farewell" is an intricate and highly intelligent thriller pulled from the pages of history— about an ordinary man thrust into the biggest theft of soviet information of the Cold War. A piece of history largely unknown until now, which Ronald Reagan called "one of the most important espionage cases of the 20th century." Directed by Christian Carion, the Academy Award® nominated filmmaker of "Joyeux Noel (Merry Christmas)," "Farewell" begins in 1981,... Full synopsis »
MOVIE REVIEW
The Seattle International Film Festival is now over, and as a Seattle-based film critic, I managed to get to only two movies. Thankfully, both were worth it. The second of two I saw on Saturday (note that this was the first day of over-75-degree weather Seattle has had since 2009) was a spy drama-thriller titled L-affaire Farewell, or, as us simple Americans like to call it, Farewell. The movie depicts the true story of a KGB agent who provided extremely sensitive intelligence to the West, intelligence that was so crippling it is labeled as "the beginning of the end" of the Soviet Union. Full movie review »
